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Excerpt from Servetus and Calvin: A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation
Of Servetus at this time I knew little or nothing, save that he had been burned as a heretic at Geneva by Calvin and of his works I had seen no more than the extract in which he describes the pulmonary cir culation. But meditating a revision and prospective publication of the Life of Harvey, with which I had prefaced my edition of his works, I went in search of further information concerning the ingenious anatomist who had not only outstripped his contemporaries, but his successors, by something like a century in making so important an induction as the Pulmonary Circula tion. Nor had I far to go. In the ample stores of the British Museum Library I found a complete mine of Servetus-literature, and with access to the 'christian ismi Restitutio,' as reproduced by a learned physician.
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